It’s Thursday and it’s the day after the Delaware Tweet-Up. I liked the opportunity to meet some of our readers and I hope some of my Twitter friends will read the blog. Let’s open this thread!
This is great news for John McCain!
Ret. Gen. Colin Powell, who helped instituted the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy in the 1990s, now supports the efforts to repeal it.
Powell, who was chairman of the joint chiefs when the military’s policy toward gay servicemembers was instituted, said “I fully support the new approach” in a statement today.
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That new approach Powell cites, presented by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Michael Mullen yesterday, includes appointing a commission to study the effects of such a repeal, and possibly stopping action against servicemembers who have been outed by a third party.
McCain cited Powell in his statement in opposition to DADT repeal.
Oops. The winner of the Illinois Democratic party Lt. Gov primary has an arrest for domestic violence. Unfortunately, the Democratic party didn’t figure this out until after he won the primary.
Scott Lee Cohen — a pawnbroker who shocked state Democratic leaders Tuesday night by winning the party’s nomination for lieutenant governor — was arrested about four-and-a-half years ago and accused of holding a knife to a former live-in girlfriend’s neck, newly obtained court records show.
The misdemeanor charge against Cohen was dropped weeks later when the woman — who had just been found guilty of prostitution — failed to show up to testify, according to those records.
That seems like a simple thing to find out, Illinois Democrats (especially primary opponents). Do they know about the Google?